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A82585	The two olive trees: or, The Lords two anointed ones, which alwayes stand before Him, the ruler of the whole earth, Zach. 4. Described also Rev. 11. by the names of [brace] two witnesses, two olive trees, two candlesticks, two prophets. [brace] And shewing what they are in their own true nature, differing from all the new fancied ones, and in what manner they alwayes prophesie. How they are said to finish their testimony. How they were to be killed by the Beast, and when. How long their corps should lie in the streets of the Beasts great citie, dead and unburied. And when the spirit of life from God should enter into them, and they stand upon their feet again. And what great things should follow after the same to the end, and thence for ever. Published according to order.	I. E.	1645 (1645)	Wing E13; Thomason E270_1; ESTC R212360	37,813	48

this time of her renewed beauty be as short before he shall be loosed to work this his last misehiefe against her Then shall the Sunne be darkned more then ever it had been it shall be as black as Sackcloth of haire and the Moon shall not onely be darkned but also be turned into blood as it is said Rev. 6.12 according to Ioel 2.31 For great bloodshed shall be upon the earth at this time as the Prophet Esay also saith And the Starres that is such as are in outward place and name as starres and lights in the Church shall like untimely figges fall from Christian religion to Mahometisme or other such like heathenish Apostasie and then shall the powers of the Heavens bee shaken These are the signes that shall goe before the great and terrible day of the Lord as those Scriptures before mentioned declare And then those Armies of Gog and Magog being destroyed by fire from heaven and the Devill that deceived them being cast into the lake of fire the seventh Angell shall sound the great and last trumpet as followeth Vers 15. And the seventh Angel sounded with a Trumpet and there were made lowd voyces in heaven saying The Kingdomes of this world are made our Lords and his Christs and hee shall reigne for ever and ever Amen MAny great things are to bee done at the sounding of this Trumpet For this is it of which St. Paul saith We which are alive and remain unto the comming of the Lord shall not prevent them that are asleep for the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voyce of the Archangel with the Trump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first then we which are are alive and remain shall bee caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the aire and so shall we be even with the Lord 1 Thess 4.15 16 17. And again Behold I shew you a mystery we shall not all sleep but wee shall all be changed in a moment in the twinckling of an eye at the last trump for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed c. 1 Cor. 15.51 52 53. And Christ saith Mat. 24. Then shall appeare the signe of the Son of man in heaven and then shall all the Tribes of the earth mourn and they shall see the Sonne of Man comming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory and he shall send his Angels with a great sound of a Trumpet and they shall gather together his elect from the foure winds c. vers 30 31. And again Rev. 10. And the Angel which I saw stand upon the Sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever who created heaven and the things that therein are and the earth and the things that therein are and the sea and the things that are therein that there should be time no longer But in the dayes of the voyce of the seventh Angel when he shall begin to sound the mystery of God should be finished as he hath declared to his servants the Prophets verse 5 6 7. When this great and last trumpet shall sound mentioned in all those places before cited and whereof the Prophet Esay long before this spake Esai 27.13 Then shall all those great things be done spoken of in the same places The Lord shall come in his glory and then hee shall sit in the throne of his glory the dead both good and bad shall be brought before him and be judged Then shall all the Tribes and kindreds of the earth even the whole multitude of the ungodly that ever had been on the earth and they also which pierced him see him and mourn and waile because of him and hee shall send his Angels with the sound of the same great Trumpet and they shall gather his elect together from the four winds c. Then there shall bee time for repentance no longer but the great mystery of God shall be finished even that great mystery of the redemption of all Gods chosen ones the whole house of Israel spirituall as he had declared to his servants the Prophets and whereof they all that have been since the world began have spoken according as it is testified of them Luke 1.69 70 71 c. Acts 3.21 and as their own written prophesies doe shew more abundantly And this is that redemption wherewith the Lord himselfe doth comfort his chosen hee having foreshewed all the sig●●● that should goe before the same saying And when yee see these things begin to come to passe then look up and lift up your heads for your redemption draweth neere Then know yee that the kingdome of God is nigh at hand Luke 22.28 31. Now the kingdomes of this world so long time usurped by Monarchs and Antichrists shall be made the Kingdomes of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall reigne for ever and ever The kingdomes of this world in respect of the creation and workes of God for so by right they did alwayes belong to the Lord and to his anointed the Prince of the Covenant though they have been usurped and polluted by Satan and his powers of wickednesse which now shall be removed and the earth and heavens cleansed all things shall be new as it is written Esay 65.27 60.22 2 Pet. 3.13 Rev. 21.1.5 This corrupt world shall be purged and made incorruptible as these our corrupt bodies shall and instead of corruption and evill righteousnes and holines shall dwell therein And so in this consideration as the state shall be in the restitution of all things differing from that it is now it shall be another world not this and therefore the Scripture calleth it the world to come Heb. 2.5 c. This present world is not that world which was before the Flood as Peter saith The world that then was being overflowed with water perished 2 Pet. 3.6 and yet we all know and so did Peter that in respect of the works of Gods creation of the heavens and the earth it is the same though in some other kind of respect it is not the same but another So the world to come though it shall bee another world farre differing from this world in state and condition yet in those respects of creation it will be the same And therefore it may rightly be said in the day when the Lord shall come to reigne The Kingdomes of this world are made our Lords and his Christs and he shall reigne for ever and ever And because others to whom they belong not doe now possesse them And they with the whole earth unto the utmost ends thereof by right of inheritance are the Lords as it is written I will declare the decree the Lord hath said unto me Thou art my Sonne this day have I begotten thee Ask of me and I will give thee the heathen for thine

the body untill the resurrection of the body and then so to rise with it and be named for both For one corrupt opinion or point of false doctrine brings alwayes more of the like nature with it But I leave this to their consideration and come again to the Text to see what it further saith Ver. 16. And the four and twenty Elders which sate on their seats in the sight of God fell on their faces and adoring God said Wee thank thee Lord God omnipotent which art which wast and which shalt come because thou hast received thy great power and brightnesse NOw the seventh Angel having sounded the great and last Trumpet the Lord being come in his glory and the Kingdomes of this world made his who is to reign for ever and ever world without end Hereupon the four and twenty Elders which are Moses and the Prophets as the four Beasts mentioned in Chap. 4.9 are the four Evangelists fall down on their faces before the throne of God adoring him for that his judgements against Antichrist and his worshippers which they by the seven-fold Spirit of Majesty given them of God spake of and denounced from time to time against them were now justified upon them And the everlasting Kingdome of the Lord their God whose dominion reacheth from Sea to Sea from the River to the ends of the earth is now set up for evermore according to all that he had foreshewed them and by the same Spirit spoken by them Hereupon they falling down and adoring the justification of God break forth into praises and thanksgiviving saying We thank thee Lord God omnipotent which art which wast and which shalt come because thou hast received thy great power and brightnesse c. Ver. 17. And the Gentiles were angry and thy wrath is come and the time of the dead to be judged and to render reward to thy servants the Prophets Saints to them that fear thy Name little and great and to destroy them that have corrupted the earth ANd notwithstanding the rage fury of those great Monarchs of the world that like wild Boares of the Forest that rose up against the Lord and against his people and Citie Ierusalem and of those Beasts of the field which said against the Lord and his anointed Let us break their bonds asunder and cast their cords from us And of all those Antichristian powers of so long continuance that have with the rest to fill up their measure rejected the Lord and trode his truth to the ground and made the holy Citie of his Saints as a street to trample upon And of all that innumerable multitude of Gog and Magog which that old Serpent the Devill and Satan shall at last gather together with their mighty men and chiefe Captaines against this great day of the Lord bringing them down and compassing the camp of his Saints about and the beloved Citie intending to destroy root out and take the prey and spoyle of all These all who are here described as they are also in Psa 2. by the name of Gentiles And the Gentiles were angry c. are now to endure the wrath judgment of him who with justice judgeth The great day of his wrath being come and the time of the dead to be judged Now the Lord for whose glory this day is made will render unto every man justly and truly according to their works and wayes wherein their hearts have walked and delighted First to his Servants his Prophets his Saints and Martyrs that through faith and patience have overcome their just reward which for his name and promise sake is right and due unto them And next unto all those heathen Gentiles and people of all nations kindreds of the earth under what name and of what profession of religion soever they passe Jewes Catholiques Protestants or other whose hearts are hard unrepentant and unbeleeving who by their evill deeds have corrupted the earth their just reward also and recompence which to their workes and wayes is rightly due unto them For so much doe the words conclude in saying And to render reward unto thy servants the Prophets Saints and to them that feare thy Name little and great and to destroy them that have corrupted the earth And hereby it is also manifest that at the same very time when the last trumpet shall sound and the Lord shall come in his glory the dead both good and bad shall be raised and judged without any distance of yeares or dayes between the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised as Paul saith And although the salvation of the just and sufferings of the ungodly shall continue for a thousand yea and ten thousand times ten thousand thousands of yeares even for everlasting as the Scriptures declare yet the judgment and sentence passing will require no longer time in the hands of the Lord then one day as the Scriptures alwayes expresse it And that we should know for certain that this day will come at the same time when Satan with his Armies of Gog and Magog shall be upon Christendome compassing the Camp of the Saints about and fire shall come downe from God out of heaven and devoure them The holy Ghost in Rev. 20.9 10 11 12 c. doth plainly declare it And to the end that we should take notice thereof hee saith chap. 21.6 It is done I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end c. And in chap. 16. upon the same comming down of the Kings of the earth and of the whole world unto the judgement of the great day it followeth vers 17. It is done And in Ezek. 39. upon the same destruction of Gog and Magog it followeth also verse 8. Behold it is come and it is done saith the Lord. This is the day whereof I have spoken Which day will be the last day of this world spoken of by Martha Luke 11.24 and whereof Christ saith But of that day and houre knoweth no man no not the Angelt of heaven but my Father only Matth. 24. For although the Lord hath revealed and men may know the yeare yet the day and hour can no man know And as in this last day this present world shall end so in it shal the world to come and the kingdome of Christ and his Saints begin as it is also declared Matth. 25.31 32 33 c. 2 Tim. 4.1 And then shall be the restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of his holy Prophets that have been since the world began as it is also written Acts 3.20.21 There shall bee new heavens and a new earth and Jerusalem shall be made a praise in the earth And great shall bee the difference between the estate of this world to come which shall be in subjection to Christ and wherein he shall reigne and righteousnesse shall dwell for ever world without end and the now present world wherein the heathen and Pagan Monarchs and Antichrists reigne and iniquity beareth rule and dwelleth And for any to teach or perswade the Christian State now present as some in their Sermons and Printed bookes have done and doe that the Kingdome of Christ and his Saints whereof the Prophets have spoken shall be in this present world for a thousand yeares before the last day is to teach and perswade to a Doctrine against Christ and not for him whose Kingdome is not of this world which is not nor will be being corrupt subject unto him Antichrist and his Clergie of false prophets that have taken upon them as much as ever did any the name of the onely true Church of Christ in the world have been as a great Monarch in this present world for a thousand yeares past already and let them take it for their portion of happinesse But let no true Christian Ministers state or people bee of such a mind to teach such doctrine or looke for such a thing here againe But rather flie the glory and shadow of this world and look for the eternall Kingdome in the world to come ready to bee revealed when Christ shall come at the last day which I verily beleeve upon the grounds before mentioned many thousands now living shall live to see And so I rest their Christian friend wishing them all true happinesse grace and truth and peace in Christ Amen Now having here a little space let mee put a question or two more to the Millenaries As first if when God shall have created new Heavens and a new Earth Jerusalem a rejoycing and her people a joy there shall be no more thence an infant of dayes nor an old man that hath not filled his dayes as the Prophet Esay saith Esa 65.20 Then I ask how there can thence an infant or child of dayes or an old man die as they will have it in their Millenary estate Again if the resurrection of the ungodly shall not bee till the thousand years kingdome of Christ which the Millenaries make to be the day of judgement shall be expired as they teach Then I ask what time they will have for that great multitude of ungodly not risen from the dead to be judged and who they mean Christ shall be all that time of a thousand yeares a judging Or how hee can judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and kingdome as Paul saith if the dead be not all raised at his appearing and kingdome and brought before him to be judged or why he should need a thousand yeares or dayes time of pawsing in judgement or more then one true naturall day though there shall be a thousand and ten thousand times ten thousand yeares of execution and suffering yea yeares and dayes and nights everlastingly as it is written Matth. 25. and sundry other places FINIS

THE TWO OLIVE TREES OR The Lords two Anointed ones which alwayes stand before Him the Ruler of the whole Earth Zach. 4. Described also Rev. 11. by the names Of Two Witnesses Two Olive Trees Two Candlesticks Two Prophets And shewing What they are in their owne true nature differing from all the new fancied ones and in what manner they alwayes prophesie How they are said to finish their testimony How they were to be killed by the Beast and when How long their corps should lie in the streets of the Beasts great Citie dead and unburied And when the Spirit of life from God should enter into them and they stand upon their feet again And what great things should follow after the same to the end and thence for ever Published according to Order LONDON Printed by Matthew Simmons 1645. To the Christian Reader ALthough there are many opinions at this day on foot concerning the two Witnesses of God described in Zach. 4. by the names of two Olive Trees and the two anointed ones which stand before the Ruler of the earth as also by the names of two Candlestickes and two Prophets Rev. 11. and much questionings and doubts made about them who and what they should be c. And that therefore I may seem too bold especially among men so learned and wise and in so great and difficult a cause as this is to speak or publish what I have heard or may seem to understand yet seeing things to be as they are I suppose I may with leave venture to doe it I confesse the matter hath already long before this time very truly been unfolded by some whose shooes I am not worthy to beare if we could see it but that wee are so naturally blind concerning the truth and given to seek out new inventions of our own and such as may seeme best to suit with the present times and affections of the people and withall serve to make for our temporall advantages which we are to repent of as being very great evils That which I shall doe herein is onely this to expresse some things a little more plainly to the plainer sort of Christians like my selfe to remove some objections and cleare some doubts After which I hope it will not remain to the meek humble in heart a matter altogether so obscure and unknowne what the two Olive Trees the Lords two Witnesses his anointed ones are in their own true nature differing from all the new invented ones which some would have us to entertain for them or besides them I request the Christian Reader therefore to excuse my boldnesse herein seeing it is his good that I seek as well as my owne desiring that we may all escape the errors and evils of the times and be led by the Spirit of truth into all truth and so Walke in the same to the praise of God and our owne salvation which is now neere at hand to be revealed So I rest His Christan friend I. E. Imprimatur Iohn Downam THE TWO OLIVE TREES OR The Lords two anointed Ones Zach. 4. Described also Rev. 11. by the names Of Two Witnesses Two Olive Trees Two Candlesticks Two Prophets REV. 11. vers 1. And there was given me a Reed like unto a Rod and the Angel that stood by me said Rise and measure the Temple of God and the Altar and them that worship therein BEfore the Lord begins to describe his two Witnesses 〈◊〉 requireth his servant Iohn to take a survey of his Church of Saints the spirituall house of God consisting of living stones built on the chiefe Corner Stone Jesus Christ they being the holy Priesthood who offer up spirituall Sacrifices acceptable to God by him which hee signifieth by the Temple of Jerusalem and the Altar of Incense that was in the same whereinto the Priests onely might enter through the vaile to sacrifice and adore These onely are they that the Lord will have to bee measured and taken notice of as being his part and portion his Tabernacle wherein he will dwell Vers 2. But the Court which is without the Temple cast out and measure not for it is given to the Gentiles and the holy Citie shall they tread under foot fourty and two months BY the outer Court of the Temple which John is bidden to cast out and not measure wee are to understand the common outward unregenerate Christians who especially after the dispersion of the true Spouse of Christ from her primitive viblsie estate should become many in number and attaine to great authority and power in the outward state of the Church and take upon them and assume unto themselves as if they were the very true Church and Spouse of Christ These who notwithstanding all this their outward profession and taking much upon them are but Gentiles in heart full of all uncleannesse and abominations resembled here by the outward Court of the Temple where the Brazen Altar was and whereinto all the people of Israel might enter and sacrifice are they whom the Lord commandeth to be cast out and forbiddeth to be measured or accounted of as being any part of his portion or inheritance And whereas these Gentiles are said to tread the holy Citie under foot fourty and two months is foreshewed that they should persecute kill and keep downe out of sight the true Spouse and her children who are here described by the name of the holy Citie because they are the Tabernacle and Sanctuary of God wherein hee will dwell for ever And that this they were to doe for the space of fourty and two months which are to be understood months of yeares taking every day of each month for a yeare according to Ezek. 4.6 Vers 3. And I will give to my two witnesses and they stall prophesie a thousand two hundred and threescore dayes clothed in sackcloth BY which words the Lord by his Angel gives to his servant Iohn and unto all his Church of Saints to understand that although those Gentiles unto whom the outward Court was to bee given should tread the holy City of Saints under foot so long as fourty and two months of yeares yet neverthelesse hee would so give unto his two Witnesses that they should prophesie all the while even every one of the dayes of those months which according to the account of the Hebrewes who had thirty dayes to every month and twelve months to every yeare do contain according as the Lord doth here also intend it a thousand two hundred and threescore years And sheweth also that their manner of prophesying should be as cloathed in Sack-cloth that is to say in mourning for so in the same kinde of habit they always prophesied although it would be now much more abundant by reason of the abundant cruelties of their enemies who should for their word and testimony sake persecute those that in the evidence of the Spirit and the teares of true repentance faith and patience testified the same against their Gentilisme hypocrisie and

lies Vers 4. These are the two Olive Trees and the two Candlesticks standing in the presence of the Lord of the earth HEre the Lord now begins to declare unto his servant Iohn and so unto all the Saints what his two Witnesses are in their own true nature in saying These are the two Olive Trees and the two Candlesticks standing c. The two as if he had said the onely two and the very same two Olive branches the two anointed ones or Sonnes of oyle shewed before unto the Prophet Zechary which stood fructifying continually before the Ruler of the whole earth not onely in the Prophets time but also long before his dayes and since Zach. 4.14 for so much doe the words clearly imply shewing that they were not two new ones not yet sprung up but those that were of old the Lord referring us as it were to the testimony of the Prophet which we are further to consider of As first where he saith I have looked and behold a Candlesticke all of gold with a bole upon the top of it and his seven lamps thereon and seven pipes to the seven lamps which were upon the top thereof And two Olive Trees by it one upon the right side of the bole and the other upon the left side thereof vers 2.3 So the Prophet having seen these things desires to know what they were and the Angel answered him saying This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel saying Not by might nor by power but by my Spirit saith the Lord of Hosts Who art thou O great mountain before Zerubbabel thou shalt become ●plain and he shall bring forth the head stone thereof with shouting crying Grace grace unto it vers 3.4 5 6 7. And the word of the Lord came again unto the Prophet saying The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house and his hands shall also finish it and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you For who hath despised the day of small things for they shall rejoyce and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven they are the eyes of the Lord which run to and fro through the whole earth vers 8 9 10. Although the Prophet had seen and heard all these things yet was he not satisfied concerning the two Olive trees but questions again saying What be these two Olive trees upon the right side of the Candlestick and upon the left side thereof vers 11. And again What be these two Olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the oyle out of themselves into the gold ver 12. And the Angel answered him saying Knowest thou not what these be And he said No my Lord. Then said the Angel unto him These are the two anointed ones that stand by the Lord of the whole earth Now the Prophet understood every thing and accordingly as they were declared unto him he writ them downe to the end that other Saints also might understand the same And yet for all this and notwithstanding all that Christ hath revealed and spoken by his Angell unto his servant Iohn and hee left written to us it remaines in doubt and is still a great question with many at this day what the two Witnesses the two Olive Trees are Some saying they are Enoch and Elias whom they will have to come Others say they are Zerubbabel and Iosua And some say they are other two men or more whom they will have to stand up in these times And others say they are the two Churches of the Iewes and Gentiles and the Ministers of both And others that they are the Ministers of the Gospel since Christ and some say the Magistracie and the Ministery And others the two Testaments and the Ministers And some say they are the two Testaments onely Now which of all these opinions is the truth that shall stand approved when all the rest shall vanish like smoake and come to nothing Surely not to make any further demurring the Two Witnesses are the Two Testaments of God without the adding or joyning men or Churches unto them in that respect For which of all those other may be said to empty the pure oyle and light of the righteousnesse and justice grace and truth of God out of themselves through their golden pipes into the golden Candlestick which is the Church of God but his two Testaments onely who have the same oyle in themselves naturally as the Olive trees have their oyle in themselves naturally It is true the Church having received into her seven Lamps of the pure oyle and light of these two Olive Trees and two Candlestickes as Christ also calleth them because they have light in themselves as well as oyle may through the sevenfold Spirit of Prophesie given her of God those seven eyes which Zechariah saw graven on the head Stone Zech. 3.9 and were with Zerubbabel Zech. 4.10 and are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth spoken of also Rev. 5.6 The Church I say having so received and being made partaker of these excellent graces and gifts may and doth by her Prophets prophesie and hold forth the light of Gods two Witnesses the two Olive Trees and two Candlestickes and testifie the same righteousnesse and justice grace and truth to the world in all parts and places where they come For which cause it is said of her O Jerusalem which bringest good tidings lift up thy voyce with strength O Sion that bringest good tidings c. And againe How beautifull upon the mountaines are the feet of those that bring good tidings of peace and good things unto us And St. Paul saith of that holy Citie that she is free and is the mother of all the children of God because she ministers the glad tidings of grace and peace unto them Although all this be true of the Church of God and that she is so neerly united unto his two Witnesses as that they cannot be divided nor parted asunder yet they may and must be distinguished so one from another as that the Church and her Prophets may not bee the Witnesses nor part of them nor the Witnesses the Church For it can no more be so then the woman mentioned Rev. 12. which had the two wings given her wherewith she might flie into the wildernes can be the two wings or the wings the woman though without them she could not flie nor be cloathed nor fed when she was in the wildernesse as the Text Rev. 14. implies the two wings being also the two Testaments which contain in them the word of the Lord wherewith she is in spirit cloathed and fed and they are but two not three nor foure nor more but onely two which God in those dayes gave unto her perfectly finished to be her guide and help every way upon all occasions and in all places wheresoever she removed or should bee dispersed And therefore Christ her Lord who was carefull of her advised